Life In Style

Breakfast of Champions

Evidently it takes a lot more than a bowl of Wheaties to get the gold these days.  Take a look at the 12,000 calorie day in the life meal plan of Olympic gold medal superstar Michael Phelps... 

Breakfast:

3 fried egg sandwiches with cheese, lettuce, tomatoe, fried onions and mayonnaise

5 egg omelet, grits, 3 slices of french toast with powdered sugar, 3 chocolate chip pancakes

2 cups of strong coffee

Lunch:

1 pound enriched pasta

2 large ham and cheese sandwiches with mayo on white bread 

1,000 calories in energy drinks

Dinner:

1 pound of pasta

1 large pizza

1,000 calories in energy drinks

Awesome.  And the 11 gold  and 2 bronze medals are good too.

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M.I.A.

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Nothing but Nice

             

            On this sunny but freezing Wednesday, I...

Took a little more time in the morning to look really nice. 

Was early for an important client meeting. 

Played with flowers and art with a lovely person who could be a friend if there was more time. 

Filmed a little video segment that was breezy and fun. 

Talked with my mother for an hour at lunch. 

Made the acquaintance of  a tremendously gracious and strong public servant who will have me thinking about her for days.

Finalized arrangements for a gospel choir performance. 

Delighted in an evening to myself with a bowl of cereal and a glass of champagne for dinner.                                  

                            Such a nice day.     

                           

The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow

This is the second post in a new category that I'm calling, "A Wednesday Rant".  It occurs to me that I've kept a lot of the editorial "I" out of Life in Style lately, and it might be okay to put a little me back in every once in a while.  It also occurs to me that come Wednesdays, I am cranky.  It's the cyclical mid-week slump that puts me in danger of losing my eyeballs as they seem to be permanently rolling back into my head.

So on this Wednesday, I'm ranting on the winter malaise that has set in among the good people of my world.  Call is Seasonal Affective Disorder (irritatingly known as SAD), or the winter blahs, or cabin fever, or just call it January. Yes, I know that January ends tomorrow, but if you're SAD then you're too SAD to be consoled by such trivial facts. I am summoning the enterprising creativity that is hibernating and making a big effort to combat the winter blues by staying busy. Most recently, I tried this:

1.  Let someone paint your sad toenails watermelon while you sit a massage chair.

2.  Ruthlessly clean out hiding places and closets and haul it all to Goodwill in the shopping bags left over from Christmas.

3.  Buy the Benjamin Moore paint deck and start contemplating the next evolution of your walls.

4.  Book a flight to New York City and look forward to spending a weekend snuggling with your best friends.

5.  Toss your old makeup, which is probably expired, and learn some new tricks.

6.  Turn off the political spin.  24 hour news coverage is a dangerous thing, especially these days.

7.  Try this recipe for Oreo Truffles that I found on Tastespotting and prepare yourself.

8.  Take a bikram yoga class.  Sit in the sauna.  Run three miles on the treadmill.  Make out with your valentine.  Anything to stay warm...

9.  Print all the photos you've been storing in Picassa files and on your computer.  Photographs were meant to be held and cherished, not viewed as a desktop slide show.

10.  Call an old friend who's gone radio silent and make the effort.  Haven't you missed them?

I am counting on you, SAD friends, to email me your own weird and inventive ways of fighting the good fight until the sun comes out tomorrow. 

Thank you Scenic Route Paper for illustrating my point graphically.  A Wednesday Rant

Give Me A Paintball Gun

Have you noticed how bad the drivers have gotten lately?  Blame it on text messaging, GPS systems, drive through Starbucks, and fiddling with ipods - but it's really bad out there.  People flip open their cell phones the minute the seat belt clicks.  People speed up when you signal to change lanes.  And they CAREEN across the highway to make an exit.

In Driver's Ed we learned to drive defensively and that road rage can have dangerous repercussions.  But it's clear that we need something a little more effective besides the old fashioned bird to let it out, out there. 

I think we need paintball guns. 

The satisfaction of landing a hot pink splash of paint on the rear of the offending careener would go a long way in expressing the utter astonishment and outrage of how bad today's drivers are.  Put down the phone.  Set the GPS before you put it in drive.  And look out because Amazon sells paintball equipment for under fifty bucks.  Pink is my signature color.

A reFRESHing road rant on a Wednesday...